Apprehensions and Border

week: By anyone's definition, by any measure, right now we have a crisis at our southern border, Johnson said during an interview on Fox's Cavuto LIVE on March 30, according to MSNBC. According to the commissioner of CBP, there were 4,000 apprehensions in one day alone this past week, and we're on pace for 100,000 apprehensions on our southern border this month. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images Obama's DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Acknowledges Crisis' at the Southern Border By Janita Kan March 30, 2019 Updated March 30, 2019 Share Jeh Johnson, the former homeland security secretary during the Obama administration, said on several recent television appearances that there is a crisis at the Southern border, adding that the number of apprehensions has surpassed anything he had seen during his time as the department's head. That is by far a greater number than anything I saw on my watch in my three years as Secretary of Homeland Security, he added. Two weeks ago, I briefed the media and testified to Congress that our immigration system was at the breaking point, he said. The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP Kevin McAleenan, said during a press conference this week that federal agents caught 4,117 people who were either trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally or through a border crossing on March 26. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.